A-Z of Entries

HCR diary   22.4.1813 Miss Maling 93 Mount St Berkeley (Square)

                   17.12.1824 "I called late on Mrs Aders who was going to Brighton and gave her a letter to Miss Maling"

                        7.6.1828 "letter from Mrs Clarkson requesting me to call on Miss Maling - Esther being dangerously ill - I saw Mr M: whom I found very composed - Miss M: had gone out with Mr Benj: Greene and not wishing to see them I came away soon" "wrote to Mrs Clarkson explaining my feelings towards S: J: M:"

                    20.11.1828 re: Esther Maling's death

GODWIN DIARY Maltby 27.5.1798 at Horne Tooke's / 5.5.1813 call on Maltby LI / 19.2.1835 Maltby at Rogers'

William Maltby DNB 1763-1854 librarian of London Institution (clearly the LI in 1813 above). By presumed coincidence Godwin had received a letter on 8.5.1798 from William Maltby and his brother Rowland, acting as attornies of Fishmongers Hall, threatening arrest for a supposed debt of £15 incurred by Mary Wollstonecraft for carpeting (Abinger c4 f18-9). They referred Godwin's reply to R Sherman for whom along with Mr Cowie they were presumably acting. Joseph Farington in his…

HCR diary 5.6,1842  Aldebert "his father in law Mr Mann"

Isaac Aldebert born 5.2.1812 illegitimate son of Isaak Aldebert (1762-1817) and Dorothea Maria Catharine Kruckenberg. He married at St Pancras 17.10.1840 Sarah Elizabeth Mann of Kentish Town, father J W H Mann varnish maker. witnesses J H Mann, Mary Elizabeth Mann. Sarah Elizabeth born 1.2.1816 bapt 9.3.1816 St George Bloomsbury dau of James Hargrave Mann and his wife Mary Elizabeth nee Laws, of King St. They had married at St Pancras 7.3.1815.. He died 31.3.1869 age 81 effects under £14.000. His son Joshua Hargrave Mann born…

HCR diary 10.6.1824 Lamb spoke of Manning - the most wonderful man he ever knew, more extraordinary than W[ordsworth] or C[oleridge] - yet he does nothing. He has travelled in China, India, Tibet but written nothing

Thomas Manning (DNB 1772-1840)

HCR diary 10.2.1823 to Aders, Euston Sq "calling on the way at Mrs Mason"

                 10.12.1826 "called at Mrs Anne Mason's"  Mrs Frankland going to Van Diemens Land. Mrs A: M: bedridden, disease of spine, Mrs McMurdo next door

                 11.12.1826 called on Mrs Mason at her daughter's Mrs Williams

                     2.4.1828 Miss Mason's 48 Gt Coram St - house for private pupils, Mrs M: met me there

                   5.11.1828 "called on Mrs Wathen late Miss Mason"

Thomas Mason born 20.7.1776 at St Laurence Pountney, London, son of…

HCR diary 21.3.1832 at Aders "death of Westfal in Sicily mentioned by Mayer"

                 18.12.1833 Mayer "with M: at Aders picture gallery - M: seemed to think the prices marked absolutely monstrous"

                   24.1.1834 Mayer "introduced him to Miss Denman"

                     4.6.1934 "had to breakfast with me Vogel von Vogelstein, Aders and Mayer"

                     7.6.1845 "Meyer called on me today. He has brought his wife to England"

These are probably all Enrico Mayer (Dizionario Biografico Degli Italiani or it.wikipedia1802-1877)…

GODWIN DIARY: 24.10.1796 Meux at Carlisle's lecture /  2.11.1796 again

Richard Meux DNB 1734-1813 his will PCC 1813 Anthony Carlisle was one of the witnesses. Or one of his sons Henry 1770-1841 /  Richard born 1768 / Thomas born 1772

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: 10.12.1820 Mrs Basil Montagu's gossip "She knows too that Mrs Aders has visited at Mr Meux's when a woman of infamous character was there"

HCR diary 17.2.1818 Mrs Smith formerly Mrs Meyer later Mrs Aders "she has resumed her maiden name (tho' she ought to have taken that of her first husband) at Mr meyer's request and with reason, since the bonds of marriage have been dissolved between them"

                 19.12.1820 Mrs Basil Montagu's gossip about Mrs Aders "Of the second husband she spoke more favorable. She used to say of Charles Meyer he is always in the right. But he has shunned her since this affair and that makes her think ill of him in this affair"

                      8.6.1826 at Aders a German (…

HCR diary 15.2.1822 Mitchells at Masqueriers

                    28.3.1829 Mrs Mitchell at Masqueriers in Brighton

John James Masquerier (DNB 1778-1855) married in 1812 Rachel widow of Rober Eden Scott and daughter of Duncan Forbes-Mitchell. The Mitchells could well have been the family of one of her married brothers then living, either John Forbes-Mitchell born 1784, married Ann Powell in 1809, had 6 children and died  9.7.1822, or Henry David Forbes-Mitchell born 1790, married Margaret Fraser in 1816 and had several children by her by 1822. He died in 1869

GODWIN DIARY:  Monkhouse 5.8.1790 at George Robinson's (or quoted there?) / 14.1.1818 calls with Wordsworth / 14.2.1818 at Telford's

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: 2.2.1822 "dined at Monkhouse's calling by way on the Aders & Flaxmans"

                                                   2.4.1823 saw Lambs at Monkhouse's "succeeded in making an arrangement for a party at Aders's which delighted them greatly"

                                                   6.5.1827 Monkhouse's brother John from Wales. Monkhouse's widow married Mr Dick

The Monkhouse in 1819 and 1822-3…

HCR diary 12.12.1821 at Aders "I found the party all in raptures with the performance on the violin of a Mr Mori who they all extolled to the skies"   "Mori has the look of a man of talent - Burrel says he is only a fine performer and stops short of genius and is not to be compared with Philippi (right name?)"

Nicolas Mori (DNB 1796/7-1839)

GODWIN DIARY: 19.5.1928 / 19.5.1828 / 30.10.1828. He has a person record on GD website

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: 21.2.1829 at Aders "I met with Muhlenfels German Prof: Un: London - I should judge a sensible man, but his talk was not particularly agreeable"

Jackson's Oxford Journal 17.5.1828 University of London the council appointed Ludwig von Muhlenfels, Professor of the German and Northern languages and literature. His manual of German Literature was published 1830. de.wikipedia 1793-1861. He fled Germany to Sweden in 1821 after being arrested for subversive activities and was…

HCR diary 3.6.1818 at British Gallery with Mrs Smith, the futre Mrs Aders "Mrs S made me attentive to the brilliant lights of Hobbema and made me half a convert to her preference of Cuyp over Claude"

A longish passage on how the future Mrs Aders influenced Robinson's taste in art, but compare his visit the previous month to the gallery with Munro, who seems to have influenced him in much the same direction. Probably Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (DNB 1797-1864)